Roberto Reyes (Earth-53912)

Host Rider
Name	Roberto Reyes
Current Alias	Host Rider
Aliases	Ghost Rider, Venom
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation	Resistance
Relatives	Eli Morrow (uncle, deceased)
Host of	Venom
Marital Status	Single
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Height	5′7″ (1.7 m), Variable (as Host Rider)
Weight	140 lbs (63.5 kg), Variable (as Host Rider)
Eyes	Irises: Red No Visible as Host Rider
Hair	Black (as Robbie), No Hair At All (as Host Rider)
Unusual Features	As Host Rider, he has a black skull-like head with white eye-patches, fangs, claws, and a prehensile tongue made of hellfire.
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Human possessed by the Spirit of the serial killer Eli Morrow
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-53912
Cause of Death	Killed by a poison (revival means unknown)
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	American
Occupation	Vigilante
Base of Operations	Mobile
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Simon Spurrier, Dustin Weaver
First	Edge of Venomverse #3 (July, 2017)
First	Edge of Venomverse #3 (July, 2017)
Death	Venomverse #3 (September, 2017)
Death	Venomverse #3 (September, 2017)

History

As a young man, Roberto Reyes was possessed by the demonic spirit of his uncle, Eli Morrow, becoming an incarnation of the infernal superhero Ghost Rider. Robbie was able to tame his uncle's spirit and used his powers for good until he had the misfortune of encountering the Venom symbiote, a predatory alien parasite that had been bonded to Spider-Man in the 1980's. The symbiote bonding to him upset the delicate internal balance Reyes had maintained and sparked a three-way war between the human, the demon, and the alien for control of their shared body. This struggle for dominance ended when Morrow and the symbiote united against Reyes and seized control of his body. Bonding to each other to overcome their individual weaknesses, Morrow and the symbiote called themselves Host Rider in mockery of what they had done to Reyes, and set out to hunt down the wicked to devour their sins and souls.

Host Rider hunted down the mad scientist Doctor Calvin Zabo, massacring his way through an army of assassins sent to kill him and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents assigned to guard him before consuming his soul and feeding his corpse to his symbiote-augmented Hell Charger. Host Rider was teleported to a post-apocalyptic world by a Venomized incarnation of Doctor Strange and approached by a Venomized incarnation of Captain America, who told him he'd been summoned to fight a war against an alien species consuming symbiotes and their hosts. Host Rider was eventually consumed by a Poison, but the new-born Poison Ghost Rider was immediately killed by Carnage.

Attributes

Powers

• Penance Kiss: Host Rider uses his flaming tongue to taste his prey's soul. If he deems them impure, he then sucks their soul out and devours it using what he calls the Penance Kiss.
• Hell Charger Manifestation: Host Rider can manifest the Hell Charger out of his body at will.

Weaknesses

As a result of its synergy with the demonic Eli Morrow, the Venom symbiote has become immune to flames.

Paraphernalia

Weapons

In addition to possessing fangs, claws, a flaming tongue, and tendrils, Host Rider can form chains augmented by symbiote biomass.

Transportation

Host Rider can manifest a symbiotically-augmented version of the Hell Charger from his body. The Hell Charger sports a fully-functional fanged mouth for a grille and uses the flesh of its victims as fuel.

Notes

• When asked about Host Rider's reappearance in Death of the Venomverse #5, Cullen Bunn replied that he would not have undone this Robbie's death, so the other one must have been a Variant.

See Also

• 4 appearance(s) of Roberto Reyes (Earth-53912)
• 16 image(s) of Roberto Reyes (Earth-53912)